Re: PCI Express 2.0 SATA 3 host bus adapter
On 7/11/2013 3:43 AM, Chris Davies wrote:
> Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
>> It's best to use identical drives with identical firmware, which means
>> buying all your drives up front from the same lot.
>
> I had always understood that best practice was the opposite of this
> recommendation, so as to help protect against a single point of failure
> such as bad firmware or even a bad manufacturing batch.
This is because you've never worked with enterprise storage. The rules
are quite different than for hobbyist level systems.
> Can you help clarify, please?
Se my detailed response to Henrique.
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Stan
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